Gingerbread Craft Christmas Around the World Gingerbread House Christmas Craft

This gingerbread house craft is quick, easy and super-fun! It's been UPDATED and is perfect for your Christmas Around the World travels (Germany) or as a highly engaging transition activity after you read The Gingerbread Man story. Great for that last, energized week before break.

Trimming a brown paper lunch sack with candy, cakes and ice-cream trimmings, chimneys, doors, and windows, is truly fun for a variety of ages & skill levels.

Let's make a "Gingerbag" the original, paper lunch bag Gingerbread House.

This non-messy gingerbread house, is a quick, easy & fun Christmas craft as an alternative to the gooey graham cracker creations that often fall apart.

Teacher Comments:

• "This was a favorite activity for my students at Christmas time - they loved how creative they could get with the many different options. Will do this every year now."
• "This set gives tons of options for making your own custom gingerbread house. I loved seeing all the different designs my students made."

Face the bag towards you so that the bottom of the bag is at the top, and looks like a flap. This is the perfect place to glue the “candy roof” and chimney on. OR...

Teachers say they use this as a gift bag to send student-made gifts or ornaments home in, so the base of the bag is the bottom of the gingerbread house.

A selection of sweet Gift Tags are also included in the packet.

Teacher Comment:

• "My students decorated a gingerbread bag house and stuffed their parent gift inside. So easy for the students to make. It also made for such a cute presentation."

Students cut out whatever pieces they want to glue to the front of their house.

They arrange the pieces ‘til they are satisfied with the look, and then glue them down. Children then color the trimmings with crayons or markers.

Keepsake Finishing Touch: Glue a child’s photo in one of the windows.

Teacher Comments:

• "Wonderful idea! Inexpensive and creative way to have kids create an art activity for the holidays. It’s a time saver!"
• "My students just loved completing these!! They turned out so cute! I can't wait to do them again this next school year!

An easy-peasy alternative for younger kiddos: I've also included two, single page patterns, with just a few decorations, so they are working with just one page of trim.

NEW: There’s a “Shapely Gingerbread House” activity featuring these 2D shapes: circle, oval, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, octagon, rhombus, trapezoid, star & heart in the design.

So that you can easily diversify your lesson, there are several options, plus a “Where’s the Gingerbread Man?” game, which reinforces spatial directions. (The second part of that standard.)

Awesome Bulletin Board Idea:

"Deck the Halls" & make a gingerbread VILLAGE! The "gingerbags" are easy to staple to a bulletin board. As a writing prompt, have students think of clever addresses, like Candy Cane Lane or Blizzard Boulevard.

"Scent-sational" Idea: Lightly spritz the "gingerbags" with some cinnamon scent for a hallway that smells delicious.

NEW: More WRITING Practice:

These super-fun, additional writing prompts will get your students truly excited:

• “A Peek Inside My Gingerbread House”,
• “Sell It!” and ...
• “The Magical Gingerbread Schoolhouse”.

I’ve also compiled a list of 21 suggestions for motivational inspiration to get your students’ creative juices flowing.

There’s 5, “Ready to Write” worksheets to choose from, with several vocabulary building activities.

Teacher Comments:

• "This was such a cute and easy activity for students to do during the last day before holiday break."
• "This was a great resource for my classroom holiday party! Easy to use and the kids loved it."

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I'm Diane from Teach With Me, wishing you a crafty little Christmas, frosted with fun.

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